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Grand JIaster for the ensuing twelve months , and called upon the brethren to salute him in the usual manner . The JI . AV . Grand Master having so received the salutations of the brethren , said , Brethren—as there is much important business to be disposed of this evening , I should think myself very ungrateful for your kindness if I were to interpose by a long speech between you and it . I most heartily thank you for the kindness with which you have so long regarded me , and for the confidence which you have again and again reposed in me . Believe me , brethren , my most anxious desire is to work for the benefit of Grand Lodge , ancl for the welfare of the Craft in general .

ELECTION OP GRAND TREASURER . Bro . Barrett then proposed that Bro . Samuel Tomkins be reelected Grand Treasurer , Bro . Symonds seconded the proposition , which was carried nem . con . GRAND LODGE OP CANADA . The MAY . Grand JIaster next said—Brethren , before I express to you my views upon the question of the Grand Lodge of Canada , I shall call on the Grand

Secretary to read to you the whole of the correspondence , including an un-oftlcial letter from the Grancl JIaster of Canada , addressed to myself , and which , though in some respects private , I feel justified under the circumstances in laying before you . The Grand Secretary here read the following correspondence : —

" Freemasons' Hall , London , Dec . IGth , 185 S . "Dear Sir and R . AV . Brother , —Your letter of tho 13 th November , with enclosures , arrived here on the 30 th , and I immediately laid them before the JI . AV . Grand JIaster , the Earl of Zetland , who had just reached London , in . order to attend the Grand Lodge on the following day . " You are aware that by our laws it is ordered that no business shall be brought into discussion in the Grand Lodge , without notice being previously given at the General Committeewhich meets on the AVednesday fortniht before the quarterl

, g y communication ; but the Graud JIaster having heard that a communication was likely to bo forwarded , announcing that arrangements had been made for the junction ofthe two previously existing ruling JIasonie bodies in Canada AVest , and his lordship being desirous that if such a communication did arrive it might immediately be taken into consideration , directed notico to be given at the General Committee , on the 17 th November , that in case of official intimation being received of the establishment of a Grand Lodge of Canadahe would bring forward

, a motion having reference to that body , with a view to its recognition , should circumstances justify such a course . " Although the circumstances under which the Grand Lodge of Canada lias been formed have been before the Grand JIaster in an unofficial form for some months past , the late period at which the official notification arrived , might have justified delay ; still , his lordship feeling strongly the desirableness of some conclusion biing arrived at without waiting a period of three months ; and the tonour of your

communication leading him to the belief that the new Grand Lodge of Canada was actuated by a spirit of truly JIasonie feeling and enlarged views for the welfare of our cherished Craft—did not hesitatcjto suggest for tho consideration of the Grand Lodge the following motion , which was adopted with a cordial ancl JIasonie confidence , viz ., ' That official intimation having been received of the formation of the Grand Lodge of Ancient Free aud Accepted JIasons ill Canada , this Grand Lodgo recognizes that body as an independent Grand Lodge , having r

jurisdiction over the province hitherto known as Canada AAest , and expresses its desire to entertain henceforth with it such a cordial and fraternal intercourse as ¦ will serve to promote the interests of Jlasonry in both countries . ' And a resolution was unanimously passed , that the M . AV . Grand JIaster be requested to communicate in appropriate terms to the Grand Lodge of Canada the resolution to which the Grand Lodge had come upon the question . ' - ' Acting upon these resolutions , the JI . AV . Grand JIaster commands me to say that he most cordially extends the right hand of fellowship to the JI . AV . Grand JIaster of the Grand Lodge of Canada , formed by the junction of the late Proviu-